Freedom of expression as liberal fantasy: the debate over The People vs.                 Larry Flynt

Petersen, Jennifer

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“…In this, there is a strong push for a sense of normality, one which should be perceived as the norm, of how it should be. While such ideas are meanwhile exposed as fantasies (e.g., Petersen, 2007;, they still function as structuring society and the grand challenges of today. In a neoliberal democratic normality, people are supposed to be in control of themselves and of society.…”

Section: Foundations Of Absurditymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Absurd Workplace

Bal¹,

Brookes²,

Hack‐Polay³

et al. 2023

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This chapter introduces the book, and discusses the main background, literature and theories that the authors draw upon. It highlights the various domains in contemporary life, in society and workplaces that can be described as absurd. Moreover, the chapter lays out the case for the need to write about absurdity and understand how absurdities are normalized, perpetuated and not effectively contested. It introduces the main theoretical foundations which will be used throughout the book, including existentialist philosophy to understand the absurd, and Yurchak's anthropological discourse analysis of hypernormalization in the late Soviet Union. Yurchak's groundbreaking work on hypernormalization will be discussed in detail as it serves as the major foundation of the book. AD.nl (2021). Vrouw in bijstand die boodschappen van moeder kreeg moet toch nog 2835 euro terugbetalen. https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/vrouw-in-bijstand-die-boodschappenvan-moeder-kreeg-moet-toch-nog-2835-euro-terugbetalen~a65a01a9/ Bal, M. References

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Section: Foundations Of Absurditymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Absurd Workplace

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“…First Amendment rights and their connections with pornography have been a primary focus in much scholarship on the genre (see Strub 2010) even if this emphasis does not extend to, or define public debates and political investments internationally. The drama of pornographers fighting censorship has been equally key in popular porn historiography, as in the 1996 film, The People vs. Larry Flynt detailing the multiple anti-censorship court cases of Hustler publisher, Larry Flynt (see Petersen 2007), and the 2005 documentary, Inside Deep Throat, focusing on the cultural resonances of the 1972 pornographic feature film, Deep Throat. In these, male pornographers engage in heroic and tragic battle against the powers to be who, in protecting their smut, protect the freedom of all.…”

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Blocked Access: When Pornographers Take Offence

Paasonen

2019

Media and the Politics of Offence

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Pornographers are traditionally assumed to cause, rather than take to offence, yet porn video aggregator sites, production studios and individual professionals alike have recently engaged in protests against proposed work safety regulation, internet policy and legislative measures connected to sexual equality, especially so in the United States. In many instances, this has involved porn companies protecting their own financial interests whereas the economic rationale has remained less lucid in others. Focusing on moments of pornographers acting out in protest, this chapter examines the political economy of offence connected to contemporary pornography.More specifically, this chapter explores how porn companies, and video aggregator sites in particular, make use of social media visibility to articulate their case, how their forms of protest function as PR, as well as how the shift of porn distribution to online platforms has changed the political stakes that all this involves. I first briefly contextualise the politics of offence connected to pornography before moving on to recent examples of two major video aggregator sites, xHamster and Pornhub, blocking user access as a form of protest, and inquire after the political and economic stakes that such seemingly paradoxical moves involve. This is followed by a discussion of xHamster's and Pornhub's sexual health and social responsibility campaigns as brand building activities in the framework of social media.Pornography occupies an uneasy position within this economy as content that is deemed inappropriate and undesirable in terms of targeted advertising around which the flows of

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“…To fully appreciate the hybridity of Index as a form of advocacy journalism, it is worth considering the publication's political and philosophical motivations in more detail. Rather than an 'ideological fantasy' (Petersen, 2007), the advocacy of freedom of speech rights during the Soviet era can be seen as a function of ideological contestation between the liberal West and illiberal East. However, to perceive Index as a by-product of the cold war is to gloss over thoughtful interventions in its theorisation and praxis of freedom of speech and its analysis of censorship.…”

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‘Making voices heard …’: Index on Censorship as advocacy journalism

Steel

2018

Journalism

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The magazine Index on Censorship has sought, since its launch in 1972, to provide a space where censorship and abuses against freedom of expression have been identified, highlighted and challenged. Originally set up by a collection of writers and intellectuals who were concerned at the levels of state censorship and repression of artists in and under the influence of the Soviet Union and elsewhere, 'Index' has provided those championing the values of freedom of expression with a platform for highlighting human rights abuses, curtailment of civil liberties and formal and informal censorship globally. Charting its inception and development between 1971 and 1974, the paper is the first to situate the journal within the specific academic literature on activist media (Janowitz, 1975; Waisbord, 2009; Fisher, 2016). In doing so the paper advances an argument which draws on the drivers and motivations behind the publication's launch to signal the development of a particular justification or 'advocacy' of a left-libertarian civic model of freedom of speech.

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Freedom of expression as liberal fantasy: the debate over The People vs. Larry Flynt

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